Katharine Asher

     katharine Asher an fashion illustrator,She was brought up on a farm in Dartmoor. She uses creative play to fill the social void and now she make a living from her favourite past time. She went through various design courses such as Diploma in Graphic Design ; Torbay College of Art & Design, LSIAD in illustration ; Harrow College of Art / London , BA hons degree in Fine Art ; UWE Bristol - specialising in sculpture.

      She learns so many different type of techniques from various different art courses, something that i should do too , exploring and learning different types of techniques that i could see and create in my daily life.

     Here are some of her illustrations.She uses a traditional drawing style such as Conceptual, line, line with color,Concept Art and Vector. She have worked as a freelance within illustration and designing line for many years, specialising in figurative work .
     For a fashion designer like me, i should move towards the path she is going too , As figurative work plays an important part for me to create emotions and the elegance of the clothes that i am going to design in the future. The technique from Harrow College of Art allows her to think three dimensions and a thorough understanding of anatomy and movement. This prove to be her backbone of her skill base, enabling her to attract wide variety of commercial source.


     From her work above. you could see she only uses simple colors and strokes to create the tones , three dimensional structure and the silhouette of the figures, it gives the viewers such as me, a soft and comfy feeling . I hope that i can apply those techniques in my illustration work.

   Creating simple lines and stroke allows viewers to determine where the lighting is coming from and she does not need to complete the figure to show its completed, it allows the viewer like me to complete it myself by thinking.
  You could obviously see the lighting is coming from the right as the left part of her face is darker because of the shadow.

The realistic shading and detail against the fun
juicy water color light strokes express a real heart-warming quality. A beautiful example of the elegant movement of the works the paintbrush.








  All this techniques and skills i could apply it in my next illustration lesson too . =)

-delvin lim